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Egypt appoints new judges in NGO trial
Brandon Gatto
March 3, 2012 12:14:55 pm

Egypt has appointed new judges to hear the trial of 43 non-governmental organization (NGO) workers just days after six Americans among those charged left the country after a nearly $5 million bail was paid by the US government. The...

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Brandon Gatto
March 3, 2012 10:38:14 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday affirmed that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is liable to a number of Louisiana property owners for its inadequate work...

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Ninth Circuit upholds Washington immigrant food stamp cuts
Brandon Gatto
March 1, 2012 02:22:33 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the state of Washington did not violate the constitutional rights of certain legal immigrants when it discontinued their food stamp benefits to...

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France constitutional court declares genocide denial ban unconstitutional
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February 28, 2012 03:10:36 pm

The Constitutional Council of the French Republic on Tuesday ruled that a French law making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered a genocide by the Ottoman Empire...

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Brandon Gatto
February 23, 2012 05:14:52 pm

A Guantanamo Bay detainee reached a plea agreement with military prosecutors on Wednesday that included an agreement to testify against other detainees. Under the agreement, detainee Majid Khan , a 31-year-old former Baltimore-area resident, will be...

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February 23, 2012 01:41:36 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Italy violated international human rights laws when a group of Somalian and Eritrean migrants traveling from Libya were intercepted by Italian authorities and returned to...

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Israel to release Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike
Brandon Gatto
February 22, 2012 07:07:13 am

A Palestinian held without trial ended his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after Israeli authorities announced his release as part of a deal that avoids judicial review of the Israeli detention policy. The prisoner, Khader Adnan, is a 33-year-old...

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February 21, 2012 01:44:37 pm

The Tribunale Ordinario di Roma on Monday ordered nine alleged Somali pirates to be tried in Italy's first international piracy trial on charges of attacking the Montecristo, an Italian cargo vessel, off...

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Brandon Gatto
February 16, 2012 02:23:25 pm

La Procura di Roma, the public prosecutors of Rome, has asked the Tribunale Ordinario di Roma to put former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his son on trial for...

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February 14, 2012 01:29:22 pm

A Tunisian court on Tuesday dropped charges against former Libyan prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi for illegally entering the country, but the former figurehead under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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